4 Apr 2024 1:17 pm
maineman » 03 Apr 2024, 3:00 pm » wrote: ↑ I gave you the rationale.
Here is a hypothetical:
Deere & Co., a multinational corporation with headquarters in Moline, Illinois, has large equipment manufacturing facilities all over the world - over 100 in total. At, let's say, their plant in Mannheim, there is a young German engineer who has been lighting up the board with his management and technical skills. The leadership team back in Moline sees a big future ahead of him. They transfer him to the corporate headquarters and give him a high visibility/high responsibility position there and tell him he will be in Moline for four years, at which time, if he performs up to their expectations, they plan on sending him back to run the entire Deere & Co. operation in Germany - all eleven factories. He brings his wife and school-age children. He buys a home. His children go to public schools. His wife joins the PTA. He pays property taxes. He pays state income taxes. He pays federal income taxes. Do you think it is entirely unreasonable to think that he might like to vote on Moline, Illinois local issues that determine how his property taxes are spent and how the school department teaching his children is managed? I do not think he should be able to vote in statewide elections or federal elections, but to not give him a say in how his own property tax dollars are spent to educate his own children seems unfair to me.
Your thoughts?
No. He's NOT a citizen. Don't like it? become a citizen. THEN he can vote in ANY election. Don't like it? Tough. Move back to Germany. What is so hard to understand? Why shouldn't he be able to vote in Federal elections? He pays State and Federal income taxes, and his wife joined the PTA, so......
And if he entered the US illegally, the arrest him and deport his criminal *** back to Germany.